lineally
Example Sentences
Examples are provided to illustrate real-world usage of words in context. Any opinions expressed do not reflect the views of Dictionary.com.
Thus Italians owe to the House of Savoy no such agelong allegiance as Hungarians feel toward the Habsburgs, or Japanese toward their 124th lineally descended Emperor.
From Time Magazine Archive
Would you have deposed so good a king, lineally descended of Elizabeth, eldest daughter of Edward iv.?
From State Trials, Political and Social Volume 1 (of 2) by Sir Harry Lushington Stephen
If Thou hast caused me to descend lineally from the natural princes of Cambria, I command these birds, in Thy name, to declare it.”
From The Cambrian Sketch-Book Tales, Scenes, and Legends of Wild Wales by R. Rice Davies
From Sir John Thynne, the nephew of Mr. Eymis, who built the magnificent mansion of Longleat, in Wiltshire, the Marquesses of Bath are lineally descended.
From Pope: His Descent and Family Connections Facts and Conjectures by Joseph Hunter
Centuries, the, lineally related to each other, 51, 63.
From Past and Present Thomas Carlyle's Collected Works, Vol. XIII. by Thomas Carlyle
